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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Ah, you're right. Didn't pick up on that.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Is it really that weird for a Japanese brand to have Japanese text on their products?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It is? And they're not allowed to do that, right? I'm not that familiar with law, but that's what I see every time people talk about their job offers getting rescinded.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

In what world will you have 5000 job interviews scheduled? Most people only manage to get up to five at a time if they're lucky.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 0 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

This isn't an issue of ghosting though. It's about reneging on an agreement. You're telling someone you'll meet them at a particular time and then not showing up. The equivalent on the hiring side would be if you told an applicant that you'll let them know what the decision is by a certain date and then not doing it. If you made no such promise, then that's a different story. Rescinding an offer is equally problematic, but I'm pretty sure you can take legal action against them for something like that. Promissory estoppel I think?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Calendars? It's no different from scheduling anything else. Meetings, social events, doctors appointments, etc, everything goes in a calendar. Whether there's 5 items or 5000, it works the same way.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.

That would be valid if it was what you did. Except it wasn't. You assumed the hypothesis to be true and asked us why it's true. You should instead be asking whether or not it's true.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I would actually interpret "naive" in this context as making very strong assumptions. In particular, a strong assumption of independence between variables that likely doesn't hold, but is good enough for many purposes.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

That's probably the only way to move things forward though. Implement rules that only affect future politicians. Let the current generation have their cake. We can gradually transition to something more sane as they get replaced.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

They still use those here. I don't bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • Talking about sex: Perfectly healthy and is something every parent should do.
  • Talking about sex toys and flashlights: Also perfectly normal.
  • Requesting/offering help in purchasing a flashlight (e.g. take my credit card and buy something under my name or driving them to a sex shop): Normal
  • Choosing the fleshlight for them and thus making the decision in exactly what kind of sensations they experience while masturbating: Out of bounds.
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

With such a glaring oversight, I don't know how I can trust the rest of this infographic.

 

Version 1.0.16

This just started yesterday. Every time I switch screens (e.g. opening/closing comments or viewing a different community), The screen changes, it swipes down to reveal the old screen, then switches back to the new screen. It's very disorienting. Anyone else or just me?

 

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine,

Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.

Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime,

Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time,

Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.

Here it is—"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three."

Three?

Oh me . . .

I guess it's not as perfect

As I thought it would be.

 

I don't know very well how the legislative process works, but to the best of my understanding, the last step involves a vote where we decide whether to pass a bill. A simple majority means it passes, otherwise it's rejected. This leads to an interesting (and possibly dangerous) dynamic where the government can be very different depending on whether or not the winning party has a majority. It means that when we have a majority, it can lead to what we call "tyranny of the majority". It also means that there's very little difference in how much influence a smaller party can have between having a single MP until the point where they can team up with another party to form a majority. It means that even if we get proportional voting for selecting MPs, we might still need to vote strategically in order to either ensure or prevent a majority government, or to encourage a specific coalition government.

Do we have any potential solutions for this? Or did I maybe misunderstand how things work and this isn't actually a problem?

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Open Sourcing π₀ (www.physicalintelligence.company)
 

https://bsky.app/profile/natolambert.bsky.social/post/3lh5jih226k2k

Anyone interested in learning about RLHF? This text isn't complete yet, but looks to be a pretty useful resource as is already.

 

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

 

An overview of RL published just a few days ago. 144 pages of goodies covering everything from basic RL theory to modern deep RL algorithms and various related niches.

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based methods, and various other topics (including a very brief discussion of RL+LLMs).

 

If there's insufficient space around it, then it'll never spawn anything. This can be useful if you want to keep a specific spawner around for capture later but don't want too spend resources on killing the constant stream of biters.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/homeautomation@lemmy.world
 

I'm looking to get some smart light switches/dimmers (zigbee or matter if that's relevant), and one of the requirements for me is that if the switches aren't connected to the network, they would behave like regular dumb switches/dimmers. No one ever advertises anything except the "ideal" behaviour when it's connected with a hub and their proprietary app and everything, so I haven't been able to find any information on this.

So my question: is this the default behaviour for most switches? Are there any that don't do this? What should I look out for given this requirement?


Edit: Thanks for the responses. Considering that no one has experienced switches that didn't behave this way nor heard of any, I'm proceeding with the assumption that any switch should be fine. I got myself some TP Link Kasa KS220 dimmers and it works pretty well. Installation was tough due to its size. Took me about an hour of wrangling the wires so that it would fit in the box. Dimming also isn't as smooth as I'd like, but it works. I haven't had a chance to set it up with Home Assistant yet since the OS keeps breaking every time I run an update and I haven't had time to fix it after the last one. Hopefully it integrates smoothly when I do get to it.

 

This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.

While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/

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